Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

Dedicate New RCA Laboratories MOST MODERN CENTER OF RADfO AND ELECTRONIC RESEARCH IS PLEDGED TO WINNING THE WAR; HARBORD. OLMSTEAD. GRANUM. DODDS. AYDELOTTE. SARNOFF AND SCHAIRER SPEAK AT CEREMONY. MAKKKi) on the calciidar ol RCA his- torv as a memorable date, Sep- tember 27, 1942, is also an important day in the annals of scientific research and the progress of radio. RCA Labora- tories at Princeton, N. ]., on that day were dedicated. Open for only a few hours to 500 guests invited to inspect the most modem center of radio and electronic research, the gates were then closed for the duration to all other than war workers. As the men of science entered to take up their work, thev were told that they were as much members of the armed forces as if they were on the battlefiekl. Their assignments would be military secrets carefully guarded against leak- age or intrusion. When dusk fell over the New Jersey countryside on that September even- ing. RC.\ Laboratories stood as much a part of the nation's armament, as an arsenal or fort, dedicated to winning the war and to serve the cause of a victorious peace. Prophetically, the dedication cere- monies were held in the large studio connected with the tele\ision labora- tory, where friends of RCA, many of them distinguished in the fields of science and education, militarx' and naval adairs. business and industry, gathered to bid the men of research success and happiness in their new "Electron House." Genoii! Harhord Presided Lieut. Cieneral |amcs G. liarbord, (LI. S. .Armv, retired), Chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America, presided and introduced the speakers: Major General Dawson Olmstead. Chief Signal Officer of the Army; Com- mander A. M. Gramnu. of the I'nited States Na\y; Dr. Harold Willis Dodds. President of Princeton University; Dr. DR. HAROLD WILLIS DODDS (lEFt), COL. DAVID SARNOFF, MAJ, GEN. DAWSON OLMSTEAD, AND LIEUT. GEN. JAMES G. HARBORD AT DEDICATION CEREMONIES. Frank .\\delotte. Director of the Insti- tute for Ad\;inced Study, at Princeton; Colonel David Sarnoff. U. S. .Army Sig- nal Corps; and Otto S. Sehairer, \ ice president in charge of RCA Laliora- torics. Evaluating the tremendous impor- tance of science in modern warf;ne, the speakers were high in their praise of the scientists; the\' praised the \ital sig- nificance of radio in the global war, and spoke in most confident terms of vic- tory ;md the great part that electronics and radio arc destined to play in the post-war period. "RCA Laboratories assembles under one roof kindred activities which have hitherto been performed by individuals widely separated by time and space," said General Harbord. "The Laborato- ries give our future scit ntific work the advantage of collective effort—the ad- vantage in our attack on our problems of delivi'ring a blow with a clenched fist instead of with open fingers. "The Laboratories promise much for till" future of the radio industry, now so cjoselv tied in with our war effort. And when the lights are once more turned on in this darkened world, we shall taki- off from here for a brilliant future of which we can now dream but cannot measure. ' Schitirer Looked iii/o the Future Introducing Otto S. Sehairer, Gen- eral Harbord said. "I do feel that these Laboratories were a picture in Mr. Schairer's heart long before the first architect put pencil to the plan." RADIO AGE 3